The names of the name: The paternal metaphor in psychoanalysis and literature.
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Title
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The names of the name: The paternal metaphor in psychoanalysis and literature.
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Identifier
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AAI9720147
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identifier
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9720147
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Creator
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Vicentini de Azevedo, Ana.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Vincent Crapanzano
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Theater | Literature, Classical
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Abstract
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In this dissertation I develop a comparative study of the psychoanalytical and the literary discourses with the purpose of demonstrating some of the multiple possibilities each of them can offer for the analysis and understanding of the other. It is a translation enterprise focused on two main topoi (in the sense of both topic and place). The first one concerns the notion developed by Lacanian psychoanalysis in terms of the "paternal metaphor", or the general principle that presides over cultural, linguistic, and psychic structures. It is my general contention that this notion has been developed by Western literary discourse ever since its Classical times. In this respect, the second topos of my analysis refers to Aeschylus's Oresteia (458 B.C.), the text on and about which the comparative analysis is developed. Even though the backbone of my study is informed by the discourses of psychoanalysis and Greek tragedy, this dissertation is not primarily aimed at psychoanalysts nor hellenists. Rather, qua comparative study, it aims at using one discourse to think and explain the other.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
